In a desperate attempt to ease panic in Ukraine caused by the arrival of evacuees from China, the nation’s health minister declared she would spend the next 2 weeks locked up in quarantine with them
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Seventy-two Ukrainian and foreign nationals arrived from Wuhan on February 20, accompanied by 20 crew members and doctors. All people on board the plane were healthy, but will spend 14 days in quarantine.on her Facebook page. “I hope my presence will calm down those in Novi Sanzhary and in the rest of Ukraine,” she said.ahead of the arrival of the plane.... [+]
Several hundred people clashed with police there, burned tires and attempted to build roadblocks to stop buses with evacuees arriving at a local medical facility. Nine policemen and one civilian were hospitalized, and 24 people were detained and questioned by the Poltava police department, the Interior ministry said.
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